What is CVE-2024-9481?

CVE-2024-9481 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Avast Antivirus, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.1/10. Published 2024-10-04.

How severe is CVE-2024-9481?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.1 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Avast Antivirus

CVE-2024-9481

An out-of-bounds write in the engine module in AVG/Avast Antivirus signature <24092400 released on 24/Sep/2024 on MacOS allows a malformed eml file to crash the application during file processing.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.001 (3.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Avast Antivirus
Avg Antivirus
Avg/avast Antivirus — versions 24/Sep/2024

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

security@nortonlifelock.com (Not Applicable)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-9481?: CVE-2024-9481 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Avast Antivirus, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.1/10. Published 2024-10-04.
How severe is CVE-2024-9481?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.1 out of 10.